Cancer Research

A diet low in carbohydrates and high in protein may reduce the risk of cancer and slow the growth of tumors already present, according to a study published in Cancer Research.   The study was…

Conventional Canadian wisdom suggests that all women should have a screening mammogram starting at age 50 (age 40 in most of the USA). The reason given is that mammograms detect cancers earlier,…

A team of scientists say they have uncovered the basis for drug resistance in acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common form of childhood cancer.  Acute lymphoblastic leukemia accounts…

Cosmic Embryo #5:  Aiming for the moon with all rockets blazing? A critique of Breast Cancer Deadline 2020®   The multibillion dollar breast cancer enterprise has just issued its damning…

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I missed a cool paper last year on the effects of squid ink on angiogenesis--the growth of new blood vessels. And therefore I also missed the chance to run the sensationalist headline SQUID INK BLOTS…

The subject of this case-study is a 44 year old female of Indian [Asian] origin with no past history of immunodeficiency. Currently, she is in reasonable health for her age and shows no signs or…

  I have always approached the breast cancer as a problem of search and destroy: find each breast tumor while it is still so small that it hasn’t spread, and zap it before it does (Gordon, 2011…

Deaths due to cancer for both men and women in the United States continued to decline between 2003 and 2007, according to the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer.  Overall…

Portuguese researchers have discovered a "broad spectrum" cancer suppressor gene called LRP1B which acts by removing proteins crucial for cancer development from the tumor environment. The fact that…